With more than 10 years of professional experience, this physician serves as an expert witness in medical toxicology, family medicine, general preventive medicine, public health, and occupational and environmental medicine. He has more than 10 years of expert witness experience providing litigation consultations, deposition testimony, and courtroom testimony. His subject-matter expertise includes toxic substances, environmental and workplace exposures, associated disease processes, medical causation, poison prevention, and the evaluation and treatment of exposed individuals.

Clinical work includes poison control, occupational toxicology, environmental health, exposure assessment, and treatment of patients across the lifespan, including pregnant women and children. His experience encompasses lead, solvents, pesticides, industrial and occupational chemicals, hazardous materials, household cleaning products, carbon monoxide, endocrine-disrupting substances, and other toxic agents. Related public health work incorporates basic epidemiology, public health and syndromic surveillance, poison-prevention measures, exposure histories, and assessment of the clinical and functional effects associated with toxic exposure. A Medical Director of an occupational health service, Assistant Medical Director for a poison-control division, an attending medical toxicology consultant, and a faculty member teaching clinical and occupational toxicology and participating in pediatric environmental health activities.

Board certified in Medical Toxicology, Occupational Medicine, Family Medicine, and Public Health and General Preventive Medicine. Additional qualifications include California physician licensure, Medical Review Officer certification, and designation as a Qualified Medical Evaluator for the California Division of Workers’ Compensation Medical Unit. His education includes associate and bachelor’s degrees in medical technology, a medical degree, a Master of Public Health, a Master of Business Administration, and a Master of Strategic Studies. Additional authority roles include appointment as an Associate Clinical Professor in medicine and pharmacy, consultation for government agencies concerning toxic exposures, service on environmental and public health advisory groups, prior leadership as President of the California Academy of Preventive Medicine, and peer-review and editorial work involving medical toxicology, occupational medicine, environmental health, and related public health subjects.